Improvement in wash-stand faucets



W.. S. BATE.

Wash-Stand Faucets.

Patented Dec. 16,1873.

W/aw v, WBJ

UNITED STATES ":Jfi

ing, in whic'lI "limited extent, cold water alone can pass into the city and county of Philadelphia, State of i )e, a )assa 'e 'icommunicatin with the C) i b WILLIAM S. BATE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASH"STAND FAUQETS.

"Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. E4

5,609., dated Deccmber 16, 1573; application filed October 18,1873.

To all whom it may 007200771;

'Be it known that 1, WILLIAM S. BATE, of

Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved lash-Stand Faucet, of which the. following is a specification:

The objects of my invention are, first, to obtain a supply of either hot or cold water, or a mixture of both, from the swivel-spout of a wash-stand faucet'; and, second, to supply both a basin and a shampooing device with water from one faucet. l attain these objects by constructing the faucet in the manner which I will now proceed to describe, reference beingrhad to the accompanying draw- Figures 1 and 2 are vertical sectional views of the faucet, and Figs. 3'and 4 sectional plan views.

"lhe fixed pillar or stem A of the faucet is secured in any suitable manner to the top X of a wash-stand adjacent to the basin, and to the uppertapcring portion, a, of the said stem is fitted the enlargement b of the swivelspout B, which is held in place as usual by a nut, 1!, and washer 0. Within the enlarge: ment 1) there is a semicircular rccess,f, which, by manipulating the spout, can be turned to any desired position on thctapering portion or plug a of the stern. There are. three passages 1n the stem and its plug, namely, a passage, It, communicating withthe hot-water cold-water pipe, and-a passage, is, communicating with a branch, I, to which is attached one end of a flexible pipe, on, the other end of the latter having a rose through the perforations of which water can be projected forshampooingpurposes. When th'e'spont isj n the position shown in Fig. 2), 'its' orifice is di-' rcc'tly above, the center of the basin of the wash-stand, and both hot and cold water from the passages h .and i are flowing from the spout. ()n turning the spent a short distance in the direct-ion of the arrew,'l ig. 3, hot water' alone will escape into the basin, and on turning the spent in a contrary direction to a .both of ietpassage, 7:, all substantially as and 1" the and through the spout. On turning the spent to the position indicated by the dotted line w a; in Fig. 4, the-internal recessj', in the en largeinent of the spout, will form a communication between. the port 1 of the cold-water temperature, by slight manipulations of the spout, to the shampooing device. To establish communication between the hot-water pipe h alone, and the outlet-port 70 through the passagef, the latter would have to be turned to a position the reverse of that indicated the dotted line :10 On turning the spout'to the position shown by the line y y in Fig. at, all 4 comnuinieation between it and the passages in the stem of the faucetwill be cut oil. It

a basin-faucet only is required, the recess f,

passage 7-", and slnunpooing attachmentmay bevdispensed with; and, in some instances, where cold water only is required for the basin and shampooing apparatus, the hot-water passage h may be dispensed with.

I claim as my inventi on-- 1. The combination, in a wash-stand faucet, of a stem,A, having two supply-passages, h and e, anda swivclspout, B, which may be 7 brought into communication with either or said passages, substantially as set forth. p

2. The combination. of the swivelrspout B, and its recess f, with the fixed stem A, having one or more supply-passages, and an outpurpbse specified;

In testimony whereof I have signed myname to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WM. S. BATE.

\Vitnesses WM. A. Slut nL, Haney Snrrn. 

